Keeping Up With AI

Students have established a grounded glossary of AI-related terms.

Students have experimented with several major AI apps/platforms to supplement their initial glossary composition. They have compared and contrasted these generative AI products:

• ChatGPT
• Google Gemini
• Microsoft Copilot
• GROK
• Claude

Students have delved into the far-reaching ramifications of AI through a discussion of "The AI Dilemma."

Students will continue to explore AI through a number of sources, including these podcast series:

• Terms of Service (Claire Duffy/CNN) 

• Example - Robot Recruiters: How AI is Helping Decide Who Gets Hired
  
  
• Example - Are Your Conversations With AI Killing the Planet?

• Your Undivided Attention (Center for Human Technology)
• Example - The Self-Preserving Machine: Why AI Learns to Deceive
  
  
• Example - Behind the DeepSeek Hype, AI is Learning to Reason
  
  
• Example - The Man Who Predicted the Downfall of Thinking

VR Walk-through Checklist

 Use a starting point from one of your colleague's blogs and try to navigate through the entire museum. 

If you hit a navigational snag, write down the specific problem in this Google Doc - tell which room you were coming from and which room you were trying to enter, etc.

If you find an action button that doesn't work, write down the specific problem in this Google Doc - tell which room you were in, the location of the button, the action you expected, etc.

Do the same for missing videos, incorrect symbolism, too much info, too little info, grainy or small images, etc. Put the fixes HERE: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11CSk6zUHU2lTTcjQdziAJL-eqzxV2dlpHQBvsP6r6DQ/edit?usp=sharing 

Here are some sample Starting Points:

Hall of Heroes

Hallway 6

What Is the (3D 360 VR) Plan, Stan?

Use a blog entry to share your plans for your assigned areas of the Cherokee County Museum Virtual Tour! You should include things like:

• Diagrams
• Floor Plan
• Camera Placement
• Existing Video from QR Codes
• Ideas for New Video
• Photos
• Written Addenda
• Interactivity (Games, Polls, Etc.)
• External Links
• Etc.

Your Area responsibilities are as listed here:

• Ameera - Lobby, Heritage Hall
• Jenna - Hallway, Archives
• John - Land of Revolution, Gallery of Heroes
• Madi - Road to Prosperity, Sports Zone: Hall of Fame
• Avery - Kids Zone: Stem, Sports Zone: Training Room
• Kacie - Kids Zone: arts Experience, Teleporter Experience
• Unassigned - Lower Lobby, Meeting Hall, Outside

The Kuleshov Experiment - plus sound!

 Students will take a stock video clip (of a man walking down a hall) - and by cutting (collage) and arranging (montage) and adding sound, the students will make teh clip have different "meanings."

A sample is here:

Plan Your Music Video

 Students will hone their editing chops by producing a "music video" using song lyrics and "freegal" video & photo resources. This will help develop a simple planning process for editing (which can be transferred to shooting video, too.)

1. Students will select a song to make into a video, and will script out the lyrics (with time codes) in a table to create a "shot list."
2. Students will complete the table with a description of what images they want for each lyrical segment, making a "shopping list" for video footage and photos, etc.
3. Students will begin "shopping" for "freegal" visual collateral, saving all assets in a folder dedicated to the project.
4. Along the way, students should keep records of the assets which require attribution, (e.g. CC BY licenses.)
5. Students will revise their shot list based on the images they actually chose to use, making the list into a Video Editing Guide - which will guide their editing in the lab.
6. Students should refresh their knowledge of copyright laws and Fair Use guidelines to discuss how such materials may or may not be used.

IMAGES: (40) Pinterest 

VIDEO: (40) Pinterest

Below is an example of a couple minutes of a music video of Mary Chapin Carpenter's "I am a Town"  using CC 0 (Public Domain) image resources from the Library of Congress and Wikimedia Commons, and video footage licensed through VideoBlocks, and a few CC BY images from VisualHunt (which will be acknowledge in the credits of the finished video.)

The Shot List / Editing List looks like this:

 This is a sample Students are imitating in their first attempt at PremierePro Editing!

Three Interactive "Selfies"

1. Students will apply their knowledge of photographic composition principles to create a "professional selfie" that they will enhance with brand-reflective interactivity in ThingLink. They will embed this interactive image in a blog post.

2. Then... they will take a 360-3D selfie using a "spherical camera" and upload it to ThingLink (as a 360 image.) They will add interactivity in the program and embed this new 360 selfie in a separate blog post and add their observations and reflections on such questions as:

• Which photographic principles were helpful?
• Which 2D photographic principles no longer apply?
• What are some specific principles you would suggest for taking 360 photos?
• What did you like about your 360 selfie?
• What will you do differently when you re-shoot your selfie?

3. But wait - there's more: Students will use the "Google Earth" app to take a 360 image without you in it - think of it as a sort of Portrait Unbound" but in VR! Follow some simple instructions to accomplish this here. Upload this image to ThingLink as a 360 image and add a few enhancements. Embed this image in a third blog with attention to the same questions as above.